Cffisor PEACOCK. Editor.
VOLUME KXII -NO. 74.
aHE EVENING BULLETIN
PUBLISHED KVKKY EVESHMO
(Sunday, excepted). .
ATTBB NEW BULLEriN BITILMNO,
. 1 607 Cbctlnnt Street, Philadelphia,
. BTXHB - .
EVENING BULLETIN ASSOCIATION.
rsopsurroKa. '
gIBSOW PEACOCK, ' ■ • GASPER SOUDEB, Jb
,L. FETIIEBfITON, • THOU. J. WIIJiIAMSON,
FRANCIS WELLS.
The BmLLETiH is served to subscribers to the city at 18
oecu pef week, payable to the carriers, or 68 per annnm.
AmebicaN
Life Insurance Company,
Of Philadelphia,
~ \Comer Fourth and Walnut Sts.
has 'i. ' .—_ '
perimentb .
thought, ’ Atm has no superior in the United
By means of
the noematachogKj Tn 7 v : tn .-
meter, he proin&Ba vNos. parties.
For the prearatuh® (earns
idea requires the Jinan toV. -——.d?
-one thonsaniStiiß’of B Mcbnib,
liaßifc?®)nWleßB thBtliae |BVB. Eodgera.
same for all brains, and
these instruments we. mayvciock, without
diealions relative in*t»nt. Michael
trusfc & co.’s
chants’ln waht.Jie soap, combined
all laying a^ l “. rccommc,1 ‘ lcd for
jnnke! * ,
For tttp£ ACE POINTS, S 7 TO 8100,
atureß BTE LLAMA SHAWLS,
, Ln, r.II'EBHP.TLAtiD DO.
/ Eeco^- mTK bareoe do.
f SoV WHITE CRAPE MARETZ.
EYRE & Fourth and Arch sts.
SfEOIAL. notices*
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad.
Fourth July Excursion Tioketa
Sv rn he Mid at REDUCED RATES between all Stations
on the Reading Railroad and branches, good from
Fr'dan inl? 3. to laiurday, July 11, 1868.
1*37 7<n>s ; '
ItffF- OFFICE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COM
pany. *
PmiAPiLnnA, May 13th, IBga.
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDKRS.~In pursuance of reeo.
tutlooa adopted by the Board of Directors at a Stated
Jtteeting held this day, notice is hereby given to the Stock*
boldtTß of this Company that they will hare the privilege
Of subscribing, either directly or by substitution, under
each ntlee as may be prescribed therefor, for Twenty-five
Per Cent of additional Stock at Par,in proportion to their
respective interests as they etand registered on the books
of tii. Company, May Sttth. 1868.
Holders ox lees than four Shares wQI be entitled to sub*
actibe for a full share, and those bolding more Share*
than a multiple of four Shares will be entitled to an addl*
fiional Share.
Subscriptions to the uewBtock will be received on and
after May JDlh, 1668, and the privilege o! subscribing
will cease on the SCith day of July, 1868.
'Hie instalments on account of the new Shares eh all
fee paid in cash, as follows:
lei *iw«nty»five Per Cent. at the time of subscription,
on or before the 30th day of July; 1868.
2d Twenty>five Per Cent, on or before the 15th day .of
December, 1668.
ad. Twenty-five Per Cent on or before the 15th day of
clune, ifetfil
4th. lwenty-five Per Cent, on or before the 15th day of
December, 16©, or If Stockholders should prefer,tho whole
emountmay be paid up at once, or any remaining instal*
enenta may be paid up in full at the time of the payment
of the second <n third instalment,and eachlnetalmcnt paid
tip ib all be entitled to a pro rata dividend that may be do*
clarcd on full shares,
THOMAS T. FIRTH,
myU-tjySOtrp Treasurer.
»«»»* PHILADELPHIA. JULY lit, 1868. _
By order of the Court of Common Pleas, a stock
vote of the Mercantile Library Company will be taken on
the following proposed amendment to the Charter:
Section £L The Board of Directors shall hamiull
pow cr to make and alt< r such Rules and By-Laws as they
jnav deem necessary for the welbbeingand due manage
ment of the affairs of the Company. Provided* Such by
laws are not repugnant to, nor inconsistent with this
Charter, or with the Constitution and laws bf this State
cr of the United States.
The Polls will bo opened in the Library on MONDAY,
July 6th,and closed on SATURDAY, July 11th. The hours
for voting will be onOMonday, Wednesday and Friday
jfrom 10 A. M. to 2 P. BL. and on Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday from 4to9P. M. The rote will be by ballot
each share of stock being entitled to one vote, which
be panted in pe re oa jOHJ(
Recording Becretary.
ft£V>» THE STATE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI
OF PENNSYLVANIA.
At the Anoaal Meeting of this Society, on the 4th icet,
ihe following officer* were elected to imve lor the en
cuing year:
P ei fdent—THOMAS McEUEN.
Vice President—HAßßlS L. SPROUT.
Secretary—GEO. W. HARRIS.
: Assistant Secretary—PELEG HALL.
*3 rt&fcurer—WM. G. CALDWELL.
Assistant Treasurer—WlLLl AH WAYNE.
STANDING COMMITTEE.
•JAMES SCHOTT, IWM, A. IRVINE,
JbOtfEHTPATTERSON, RICHARD DALE,
GUAS. J. PUGH, JTHOH. C. HUMPHREY,
y/. POYNTEIiL JOHNSON.
GEORGE W. HARRIS.
Secretary.
Jy6*2trp»
Philadelphia, July 6th, 1868,
IMgp* PHILADELPHIA AND HEADING RAILROAD
G**? COMPANY, OFFICE NO. 227 SOUTH FOURTH
•STREET.
PnTT.ATrtn.pmA. May 27, 1868.
•NOTICE to the holder* of bond* of the Philadelphia
And Reading Railroad Company, due April U 1870
The Company oner to exchange any of these bonds of
131,000 each at any time before the Ist day of October next,
at par, for a new mortgage bond of equal amount, bearing
9 per cent interest, clear of United States and State taxes,
Jhaving 25 years to rup. t *
The bonds not surrendered on or before the Ist of Octo
t>er nexttwill be paid at maturity, in accordance with
Cheir tenor. mySErt octl 3. BRADFORD, Treasurer.
THE BANE OF NORTH AMERICA.
.■Tzf .♦ ' Philadelphia!, July 6,1868.
Tbi Directors have this day declared a semi-annual
3Dlvideod_of 7# percent* and 2M per cent extra, making
ken per cent, payable on demand, ALo a Dividend of
a>er cent, being, the State tax for 1868, of three miUroir
speeesed value of $250 per shore, which will be paid to
£he State Treasurer, for account of the stockholders, the
gax being alien upon the stock until paid.
J, HOCKLEY, Cashier.
rtf* OFFICE OF THE PHILADELPHIA AND
GRAY’S, FERRY PASSENGER RAILWAY CO.,
aventy-second street, below Spruce,
, , * . Philadelphia, July 2d, 1868.
The Board of Directors have this day declared a divi
dend of THREE PER CENT, on the capital stack paid
tin, clear of Taxes, payable on and after the 18th instant,
gintil which time the Transfer Books will bo closed.
jy6m wf t!4j JAB. MoFADDEN, Jb,,Treasurer.
»>?M!t DIIANCE *JuM
- The Board of Doctors
<ocna of Three Per Cent .payable on demand, clear of all
WUiiIAMB X. BLANCHARD.
Jy6-6ts . > Secretary,
the enterpribe insurance company
PHICADELPmA, OFFICE, NO. 400 WALNUT
Tho Directors hove this day
Four Per cent, on the capital stock of the Company for
£hG.!&Bt six months, payable on demand, free of all
jyii-m tv f 6t{ ALEX W. WISHER. Secretary
BMgP- FIRST NATIONAL BANK ~
The Board of Directors
fiend of Six Per Cent, clear of aU on dj
jn&nd.
jy3-6f: ; /;MORTON MoMIOHAEL, Jn.. Cashle .
HOW/&P HOSPITAL, N 08.1618 AND 162 u
.PHILADELPHIA ORTBOP-IEDtO HOSPITaTT
Np. IS Bontt Ninth street Club-foot hip' and spt
tual disease* and bodily determine, treated. Apply daily
at 12 o’clock. , apis Srnrp}
11«“ NEWSPAPERS. BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, WASTE
• bought by E. HUNTER,
ap_BB-tfrp - i : No. 618 Jayne street.
—Colonel Grogan, .who- bought the Mammoth
Cave, explains toiffißelf thus: -‘I bought it for
3-1,000, and it has been a grand purchase. I have
Been baying caves now this twenty years. Tho
first one i owned jvas in Illinois, and I now own
fifteen,. reoplefound I was fond of cavos, and
they brought them to mo, and I bought them.
Ahoy are curious things. I alwavs was fond of
caves.” Crogan is, we should think, a jackass
j 0 aUa %ulktin
The report on the budget, which has been pub
lished, denies that there was any guaranty, either
moral or otherwise, on the part of the govern
ment to the Mexican bondholders. The subscri
bers, it said, were to receive something like 12 per
cent, with the chance of magnificent prizes in the
lottery; and therefore it is absurd to suppose that
they could require any further advantages. Never
theless, the report adds, “under the circumstan
ces” (it does not say what circumstances) it advises
that a rente, or yearly revenue eff 400,000 francs
should be appropriated for the payment of the
Mexican bondholders. Thus in addition to all
that has been spent before, the country is 'to be
saddled permanently with 400,000 francs per an
num, to satisfy the speculators and gamblers
whom the Government instigated to lend their
money to Maximilian at 12 per cent., and the
chance of a prize in the lottery. •
Authentic accounts of some interest have
been lately received in Paris respecting
the (health of that unhappy lady who
is still called the “Empress Charlotte.’’.
Would it be believed that there is a party-here
who have spread reports that she had been invi
ted to return to Mexico by “a powerful party in
that country!” It is in reply to these statements
that an account of her real condition has been
sent here. It amounts In fact to this: that some
times she appears to have quite recovered her in
tellect, and talks, reads, writes and acts as though
she were completely herself. The next moment
her malady breaks out again as bad as ever. 'ln
her lucid intervals she Is perfectly aware of the :
death of her husband, and of all too circumstan- i
ces under which it took place.
Very recently she subscribed, of her own ac- :
cord, to his monument at Trieste; and for the ;
day of the anniversary of his death, worked with;
her own hands and sent off an immortel, to be bus
pended on his torn!) in the -01101011 of the Capu- i
chins at Vienna, having long wept over the
memorial before it went to Its destination. Then
> her mind, breaks down again and her recovery
remains aq far off and doubtful as" ever. She
forms; in her own person, the most melancholy
and touching memorial of that ill-fated and in- :
fatuated expedition.
The extreme heat in Paris, has been agreeably ;
relieved by thunder showers, which have cooled
the air and sensibly reduced the temperature.
But tho town begins to look deserted sooner than
EUBOPEAH AFFAIRS
LETTKR FROM PARIS.
TJ>e JBnibolluiinicnt of t*aris—Baron
Uamiman't Glorlfl
caijon of napoleon—Xbe fflexican
-Bond Business—financial Burdens
of (be JPcopfe—Podr C'arlotta-fler
present Condition—An Absurd Report
—A Great Wine Estate Sold.
tCorrapondeoco of the Pbilada. B»Uy Errata* Bulletin.)
Pabis, Tuesday, June 23d, 1868 The embel
lishment of Paris and the sums spent upon If are,
of conrse,' topics of never failing interest for
Parisians, and even for most strangers resident
In the imperial capital- All who are here are
either helping to pay for the magnificence which
Borronnds them ont of their own pockets by direct
taxes and cltv does, or at least have what Is
gelngon socoqtlnually before their eyes that
they cannot well avoid thinking and
talbing about It. The subject la everlasting;
and even if one were Inclined,to forget It, there
are too many reminders to allow of the oblivion
being of long duration. Tho whole question has
Just been again freshly brought before the public
by a new Bcport, which the Emperor has required
Baron.Haussmann.thc Prefect, to give him on the
city finances. The details are.far too long for me
to go into, but a few items are worth mention
ing. We leam from it that since these changes
began in 1853, a sum of very nearly nine hundred
millions (of francs) has been expended
in opening , new lines of thoroughfare
- through different parts of the city, and that an
other sum of very nearly one thousand millions
has been expended oh other “extraordinary”
operations oi every kind. Thus, the improve!
meets ol Paris, which are astonishing all the
world, have cost, so far, little shore of two thou
sand millions. On religious -edifices, sixty mil
lions have been expended; on hospitals, fifty-five
millions;- on markets, thirty-eight millions; on
supply ol water nnd drainage, one hundred and
fifty-seven millions; on nurseries, barracks and
other municipal edifices, one hundred and thirty
millions, Ac. Of course all this is very magnifi
cent, and the only question is, where Is the money to
come from ? Thfi Prefect declares that he has
accomplished all these wonders without increas
ing the burdens of the inhabitants. Bat I doubt
Baron-llanssmann Is not exactly borne ont In that
statement For instance, to mention two winter
articles, coal is now taxed rather more than 7
francs per ton entry, instead of only a little more
than and candles pay 19 francs, when before
they only paid 11. And to speak of an article
very much in season just now, lee, which
was formerly exempt from all duty,
, now produces the city a revenue of
400,000 francs a year. I have seen a list of recent
augmentations to city taxes amounting to some
six millions per annum, and thereto per head on
the inhabitants, which in 1856 was only 37 francsj
has risen now to 53. There is Ho doubt that Pa
risians are made to pay for their
and it is useless to disguise the fact. But there
is as little doubt that they reap also great advan
tages from It, both In health and comfort and en
joyment ; and also in the vast inflax of strangers
and visitors from every part of the world, and the
money which is spent by them.
The Prefect says that “posterity will glorify
the Emperor for the transformation of Paris,’’
and that “those who come after us will bless the
Emperor for having conceived and executed this
grand Idea.” Indeed, all through his Report, he
speaks of the “plans of the Emperor,” and Is in
directly bent upon sheltering himself under the
skirts of the imperial mantle from the storm of
criticism which is just now raging aronnd him-
The polling down of that comer of the Rue de la
Paix is the act which thas brought public
feeling to a climax. The Prefect says there has
been tor too much “emotion” about the “demo
lition of a few houses,” and that "no one can
appreciate yet how magnificent will be the effect
of the new Place de 1’ Opera, and all the grand
streets branching from it” Very likely; but
then every one was so well satisfied before with
the same quarter of the town, and every one
thought that comer where the Rne de la Paix
meets the Boulevards so gay and brilliant, that
it really needed no improving. On the part of
our loungers and loafers, indeed, of all nations,
there is a sort of feeling of personal
injury at having this their favorite prome
nade and rendezvous ruthlessly swept away from I
them
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, JULY 6, 1868.
nmal this year, Jn consequence of the early
summer.
There was to have been a bull fight added to
the attractions of the Havre exposition last
Sunday. But it was put off; the chief actors, the
bulls that is, to say, were announced to be “in
disposed."
The celebrated estate of Chateau Lafitte, be
longing to Messrs. Scott, bankers, London, and
which produces the well-known Bordeaux wine,
of tho same name, was put up for sale in Paris
on Saturday.* The upset price was four and a
half million francs, but there was no bidder be
yond that sum, and the proceedings, therefore,
produced no result. The vintage this year prom
ises to be magnificent. . .
EHGIiAND.
*he trial) Omrch-A Great Liberal
meeting in London Broken Up br tbe
Tones. ’
The Guildhall of the City of London was
crowded to suffocation on tho 22d of June, in
consequence of a call having been issued for a
public meeting on tbe Irish Church question.
The Lord Mayor is a Tory and a partisan of the
Cburch-and-Btate party, but, os in duty bound,
be had called tho meeting at the request of Influ
ential citizens who were opposed to the State
Church. The 6equel proved that the friends of
the Lord Mayor and the Irish Church had packed
the hall with Tory partisans; who would listen
to no argument. They shouted “No Popery!”
“Church and Queen!” voted down tho only reso
lution which was nut, and succeeded in having
tho meeting broken up in a state of disgraceful
disorder.
The following resolution and petitions were to
be proposed:
“That the ‘Established Church (Ireland) BUI, *
as a message of peace and good-will from the
British to the Irish people, is at once a healing
measure and an act of justice and sound pollcyT
which may remove a rock of offence, in the way
ot the promotion of religious truth. That, there
fore, the following petitions to Parliament be
adopted by this meeting; that the Right Hon. the
Lord Mayor be respeetlully requested to sign the
same, In the name and on behalf of the citizens
of London; that the members for the city be re
quested to present and support the petition to
the House of Commons, and that the petition to
the House of Lords be intrusted to Eari Russell
for presentation.
“Unto the Honorable the Commons of Great
Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled. 1
The humble petition of the .citizens of London
In public meeting at their Guildhall convened!
“Sbeweth, That your petitioners are of opinion
tho disestablishment of the Irish State Church is
calculated to remove a long-existing cause of dis-'
content and disaffection from the Irish nation;
to promote the loyalty and mutual good will of
the people of the three kingdoms, and to conso
lidate the power by cementing the cordial union
and common fellowship of the subjects of the
realm. That your petitioners, therefore, learn
with satisfaction tho Established Chnrch (Ire
land) bill has passed your honorable House, and
they venture to express the hope it may please
your honorable House to adopt such further steps
as may be calculated to give full practical effect
•t> the principle inaugurated by that salutary
measure. And your petitioners will ever pray,
&c. ;
“Unto the Right Honorable the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal of Great Britain and Ireland in
Parliament assembled. The petition of citizens
of London, in public meeting at their Guildhall
convened:
“Humbly sheweth, That your petitioners learn
with satisfaction a bill has been sent up from the
BoDorable the Commons to your right honorable
House, entitled the ‘Established Church (Ireland)
bill.’ That your petitioners respectfully trust
it may please yonr right honorable House to pass
the said bill into a law. And your petitioners will
ever pray, &c.”
CBIMB.
MBS. VICTOR SENTENCED.
To be Hanged August 28m— Her Ap.
pearance in me court UAom.
[From the Cleveland Leader, July ith 1
At about two o'clock yesterday afternoon Judge
Foote directed two of the deputy sheriffs to bring
Mrs. Victor into court room No. 1 for sentence
Ac cordingly they went to the jail and soon after
returned, bringing her ,in their arms. But few
persons were present, as it was not generally
known that the sentence was to be pronounced:
and, indeed, it was desired to keep toe matter as
private as possible, in order to avoid a crowd.
Mr. Jones was there for toe prosecution, and Mr
Castle, of toe defence, was sent for.
Mrs. Victor was carried to toe table at the left
oi the Judges bench and stood upon the floor
preparatory to giving her a chair. She immedi
»tely took from the table a pamphlet and reached
for a legal document lying there, but dropped it
as soon as she was put in a chair. She had in her
hands a fan and an orange, with a string around
it. She stared vacantly at the pamphlet, orange
and fan, and commenced to play with them in a
childish manner. She soon tired of toe pamphlet
and laid it on the table. Then she put the handle
of the fan through the loop of the string and
amused herself by rolling toe orange from one
side of the fan to the other. After playing with
that for a tone she hung toe orange on her chin
by the string and opened her mouth like an
idiot
Occasionally she would mutter to herself, and
once said, “I don’t wapt to hear Mr. Jones talk
so hard against me any more.”
Shortly after Mr. Jones entered the court-room
he rose and said: “If your Honor please, I move
that toe judgment of the court be now pro
nounced in the case of toe State of Ohio against
Sarah Maria Victor.” “
While Mr. Jones was speaking, Mrs. Victor
sang in a low tone:
“In tho Christian’s home in glory
There remains a land of rest.”
In a few moments Mr. Castle came in, seated
himself by Mrs. Victor’s side, and addressed her,
but she paid no heed to his remarks and con
tinued to mutter.
_ THE SENTENCE.
Judge Foote then slowly pionounced toe'fol
lowing sentence:.
“Sarah Maria Victor: Tho jury having returned
a verdict finding you guilty of murder in the
first degree, and no exceptions having been taken
to the finding, or any suggestions made to the
court of any exceptions which could be taken, it
becomes the duty of the court to pronounce
your sentence. Tfyou have any words'to say,
either yonreelf or through your counsel, you
now have the opportunity to say them.”
Mr. Castle responded that it was evident that
Mrs. Victor, in her condition, could not speak
for herself, and that the counsel had nothing to
say. & •
‘The judge continued;
The law has fixed toe judgment in such a case,
and I have nothing more to do than pronounce
the sentence in accordance with that judgmont
Sarah M. Victor, you are tqbo taken to the jail!
to be kept in close confinement until your execu
tion, and on tho twenty-eighth - day of August,
1868, between the hours of ten o’clock in the
morning and two o'clock in the afternoon,you are
to be hung by tho neck until dead; and may God
have mercy on your. soul. The sheriff will seo
that the sentence is executed.
t During the pronouncing of the sentence, Mrs.
Victor maintained her stppid actions and ap
pearance, except when the judge-said “To bo
hung;”Then"sße seemed to bo somewhat startled,
but quickly regained her former condition.
.For a short lime nothing was dono. Thon Mre.
Victor sang another strain from too tune “There
ip Best for tho Weary,” and continued to hum
while being carried back to the jail. -
) It may seem to some a little hard that a woman
in such a condition should be thus sentenced, but
OUR WHOLE COUNTRY.
the court and prosecution had medical advice to
the effect that all her insanity is assumed.
TJ® Morning Star Dleaster~-more
Bodies Recovered— Two cmitlren
Found.
The Cleveland Herald of Wednesday says:
“Two men, Pease and Ward, who were fishing
at Euclid Creek. Sunday, found the body Of a
child between ope and two years old, floating in
the lake. It was probably one of the sufferers
from the Morning Star. The men brought the
body to the city and delivered It to the police. It
was put in the Michigan Central warehouse
when it arrived at midnight, and the undertaker,
Mr. Howland, notified. The body was clothed
in a bipe and white checked merino cloak, with
hood, and bine ribbons on the hood.
“Still another body of a child was recovered
on Bunday, some distance down the lake, off Eu
clid, It was apparently a child abont three of
four years old. The body was so far decayed
that no one could recognize the features. It was
rent to this city and placed lit charge of Mr.
Howland, the undertaker. It was necessary to
pnt limeon it, so offensive was the smeU. There
was little or no clothing by which the body could
be identified.
“The eafe and American Express trank were
raised by divers from the wreck of tho Morning
Star and taken to Detroit by the tug Relief.
“The proprietors of the Detroit apd Cleveland
Steamboat Company are In negotiation with the
owner of the splendid Pew steamer Northwest,
and it Is now probable that shp will be purchased
and put on the line in the place of the Morning
Star. ...
“Last Sunday, some boys out In the lake, In
a small boat; found a memorandum book float
ing. It contained some scrip, a due bill for $lO,
and five orders, lithographed, each for $1 on the
Pittsburgh and Lake Angeline Iron Company.
One of the boys was a son of Mr. William
Morgan. The came in tho book, If any, is not
known.”
pbesisentisl paragraphs.
Wilkes’ Spirit says: Where, then, shall the
Democracy turn tor a leader ? What man have
they In whose support they can unite all factions
—the friends of Pendleton in tho West, the fol
lowers of Seymour in the East, the clans who
clamor for repudiation, the bankers led by Mr.
Belmont, the negro-haters, and the more en
lightened . Democrats who, instead of opposing
Fate, would try to lead her by the nose f In our
bonest and matured opinion, there is
but one man who can solve the
problem of the Convention, and whom
the whole party would sustain with confidence
and enthusiasm. That man is Andrew Johnson,
of Tennessee, President of the United States,
conqueror of the Republican party on its own
chosen field, and the only man in the United
Slates who had the power to save the Democratic
party from destruction in the last four years—
the only man who has the power to keep it from
ignoble defeat in the Presidential campaign
Before the Republicans had ceased to monni for
the death of Lincoln, he taught them a better
;reasnn for grief, and astounded the country bv
golfig over, to too Democracy with his whole
army, by using the entire Influence of his office
to rebuild that shattered party, and to crash the
ambition of the men who, in electing him sup
posed they could control him. Theßepublican
party expected to govern the country for the
next twenty years. “The Democracy Is dead”
was their favorite boast. It was Andrew John
son who bade tbe corpse arise, and it arose) he
put arms in its hands, clothed It with the patron
age of his office; he brought It into his Cabinet,
and placed the revenue of the Repnblic at its dis
posal; he allowed the whlflky rlDg to exist for the
leutfit of the Democratic party, and turned the
Post-office Department into a barracks for Dem
ocratic adventurers.
****** ***«.
We should be glad to see Andrew Johnson tha
Democratic .candidate, bccanse his nomination
wonld mate a full and logical Issue npon Recon
struction and the questions involved in impeach
ment The campaign would be of principles as
well as men.
—The San Francisco Times says: “Grant has
the highest of all qualities—that equanimity—
that self-poise, that marks the complete man.
Cautious and wide-looking in his deliberations
cool |in his judgments, he cannot easily be
swerved from the path which he has onceentered.
He will not become the tool of any clique or com
bination, which may seek to use him for its own
advantage and the pnblic detriment; he will not
be misled by a short-sighted and lying ambition
which will promise him a momentary advantage
at the price of his consciousness of rectitude.
That he has strength of mind and tenacity of
purpose, that he is a good judge of men, and pos
sesses administrative ability, we know by what
he did during the war. That he is destitute of
unhallowed ambition, and is a regarder of law
esteeming himself not the ruler, but the servant
of the people, we know by his course since the
conclusion of the war.”
—The San Francisco correspondent lof the
Chicago Tribune writes: “The Union masses of
the Pacific shores have everywhere cordially en
dorsed the nomination of Grant and Colfax and
I am satisfied that it is toe best ticket which
could possibly bo made for this side of the con
tinent. Collax is remembered kindly by all
Pacific coasters, and will get many a vote from
men who would not have voted for Wade or
any other man who could have been nominated.
As for Grant, he was tho first and only choice of
the Union men of the Pacific shores. There has
been but one ratification meeting in San Fran
cisco as yet, but it was a rouser, and had an un
mistakable effect. Oregon has just gone against
us, from local causes only."
Nullification
Democracy, in the partisan sense, has under
gone many transmutations. It has been by
turns anti and pro-Slavery—for and against
Protecuon, Internal Improvement—for War and
anti War; bnt no man ever heard of a Democrat
—at leaßt, we never did—who was earnestly hos
tile to Fraudulent Voting and anxious that mea
suresi beidevised and adopted for its suppression.
On that point Democracy haß ever been consist
ent and straightforward. A Kegistiy law it
loathes and. abhors; for a Registry law makes
the polling of Illegal Votes difficult at
all events, till its manipulators have be
come familiar with ita machinery. Bv
fraudulent voting in this city and Plaquemines,
Louisiana, Democracy cheated Henry Clay out
of the Presidency in 1844; it cheated before, and
has been cheating ever since. The black-lege
who organize and direct the machinery whereby
Illegal votes are polled with Impunity, are au
Democrats; the alien roughs and outlaws through
whoso fingmrs they stuff ballot-boxes are gene
rally inclined to that party, and readily lend
themselves to its service for a consideration.
The former had toe wires so adjusted
In Ban Francisco twelve years' ago that
they would contract to elect to a municipal office
any man who would pay them their price, no mat
ter whether ho did or did not receive one single
legal vote. The villainy became at last so bare
faced that toe defrauded citizens conld stand it
no longer: so they organized a Vigilance Com
mittee, which smashed the, machine, hung'some
of the most notorious operators; ana drove away
tho rest; bo that, for quite a number offlubsenuoQt
years, hopeety was the rule, rascality the excop
tion, In tho elections of toas city. v
The IntoJLegiSlatnro of. Penhsyivanla-inTview'
of me glaring frauds perpetrated at^her polls last
fall by means of forged and coffee-colored nntu •
ralizationpapers and kindred devices—passed an
act requlrmg.a registration of Legal voters of that
State. HorSpfireme Conrt; by a vote of 3 to 2
has just nullified that act, pronouncing it uncon
stitntlon. The only two. Judges ever ' elected to
Us bench by Republicans upheld too
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DISASTERS.
POIiITICAIi.
of (lie Pennsylvania.
Registry Act.
law; Judge Sharswood elected last fall
by- the very frauds which this act
is intended henceforth to preclude—gave
the casting voto for nullification. The coffeo
colored naturalization papers having-given him
his office, he evidently holds himself bonnd to do
his utmost in -their behalf. Judge. Henry K.
Strong—who has been regarded as a sort of War
Democrat, and who sided with the Republicans
in upholding the validity of conscription in the
war for the Union—went with the party of fraud,
and helped them through. So Luzerne county
naturalization certificates, skillfully coffee*
stained, will be ata premium this fall, with no
obstacles to their general currency.
_ The Republicans of Pennsylvania are thus
abundantly notified that they are to be swindled
by wholesale next October. Those districts of
Philadelphia where'vice celebrates her most loath
some orgies will be out in double strength. Lu
zerne will roll np her bogus majorities beyond all
precedent: while the dark holes of Berks, Co
lumbia, Northampton and Monroe will be made
to redouble the worst frauds of the past. But
the notice is seasonable; and we trust the prepa
rations to meet and defeat the ballot-box staffers
will be ample and effeetive.-A r ew Yorh Tribune
of to-day.
Tlic Democratic Programme.
The Chicago Tribune says of the Democratic
protest against tho admission of the recon
structed States: “ The most significant part of
the protest is the threat that the Democratic
party, on obtaining possession of the govern
ment, will at once proceed to undo all that has
been done to reconstruct the conquered States.
All the enactments of Congress to that end will
be treated os unconstitutional legislation. The
readmitted States will bo restored to
the old status. Negro suffrage win be abolished,
the negiocs remitted to a subordinate posi
tion, and authority be lodged exclusively in the
hands of the whites. The amendments to the
Constitution will be prononneed null and void,
and thus we shall got back to the old standpoint
at which the original compromises of the organic
Jaw will become operative, including that clause
which declares that “no person held to service
or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, es
caping Into another, shall, in consequence
of any law or 'regulation therein,
be discharged from such service or
labor, but shall be delivered np on claim of the
party to whom snch service or labor may bo due.”
With all amendments of the Constitution since
the war thus eliminated by a partv in authority—
with tho old instrument restored ‘in all of its pro
visions and efficacy, slavery wonld of coarse re
main as not abolished. It requires little imagina
tion to bodeforth the consequences of snch an en*
tangling condition. No one supposes that the hot
heads who wonld accomplish such ends can
obtain ascendancy in. national affairs, but it is
well to remember, amid the sophistries which
will be the stock in trade of Democratic stump
speakefs and journals, daring the pending
campaign, what are the real views and aims of
the party they represent, and what wonld bo the
sequel of its acquisition of power.
Chief Justice chase’s Platform*
In answer to a series of inquires addressed to
him by an Ohio politician, Mr, Chase thus de
fines his position:
JulyI —Please say to your friend that he is
entirely right as to my views- of Suffrage- and
States Rights. , What 1 desire for the Southern
States is peace and -prosperity, with all dis
franchisements and disabilities removed and all
rights restored to all citizens, and it is my
opinion that these ends will be best-secured by
according suffrage to all citizens. But the prac
tical disposition of the question of suffrage, as
well as- all' other domestic questions, is for
the people of the States themselves, not for out
siders. On this question I adhere to my old
State rights doctrines. In the event of nomina
tion and success, I trust I should so act that nei
ther the great party which makes the nomination
nor the great body of patriotic citizens whoso co
operation would insure success, would have any
cause to regret their action. It is an intense de
sire with me to sec the Democratic party meeting
thfr questions of the day in the spirit of the day,
and assuring to itself a long duration of ascen
dancy. It can do so if it will.
Tiie Return of JHiss Cusbman.
The Boston Journal says: “Miss Charlotte
Cushman arrived in New York after an absence
cl over four years and a half. During her previ
ous visit Bhe contributed by her services to the
Sanitary Commission, realizing in the large cities
a very handsome sum. Her last appearance was
on the occasion oi the dedication oi the new or
gan at the Music Hall, when she delivered the
ode Miss Cushman while abroad has been a firm
friend of her native land, and by her many acta
of kindness and attention to her countrymen, and
her generosity to the unfortunate, has been a
worthy representative of our people. Daring
her recent absence she has not forgotten her na
tive city. Her gift to the Music Hall of the splen
did brackets, which have been somuch admired
will identify her namo with this building. We
hear that it is Miss Cushman’s intention to give a
senes of readings in this city, to create a fund
that Bhall be devoted to procuring marble conies
of the three brackets.
“While we cordially commend the effort, we
have a suggestion to make, which we believe will
be cordially approved by the public. We under
stand that it is Miss Cushman’s intention to dis
pose other theatrical wardrobe during her pres
ent sojourn in this countiy. Before she does so
we believe that her reappearance on the stage
would afford gratification to thousands, who
notwithstanding the appearance of Ristori and
Janauschek, have not yet obliterated from their
memory many of her masterly and wonderful
personations. Though she has taken a leave of
the stage, there would be a marked propriety
in reappearing for the purpose of
creating a fund to be devoted ts
so n oble an object. A new race of patrons of the
drama have come on the stage since Miss Cush
man last appeared, andduring the past five years
great progress has been made in the presentation
of plays. We trust Miss Cushman will adopt a
suggestion which has been made by many since
it was announced that she would probably re
turn, and give us a week or two of the legitimate
drama before her final withdrawal from the
stage.”
Laying Bail Tracks by machinery. £
IFrom the ® an Francisco Alta California.]
Iho railroad track-layer Is an indubitable and
decided success. It is now working along regu
larly at the rate of a mile a day, and it will do
better when several small defects aro remedied.
Some of its work has been done at tbo rate of two
miles in twelve hoars, but one mile is considered
its present working capacity. The contractor
and Directors ot the Vallejo and Sacra
mento Railroad, although most of them
were skeptical, and some quite dissatisfied
about the delays in getting it into
operation, give it the highest praise, and
! have made their arrangements in reliance upon
it. The machine is a car sixty feet long and ten
I feet wide. It has a small engine, on board for
handling the ties and rails. The ties are carried
on a common freight car behind, and conveyed
by an endless chain over the top of the machine
laid down in their places on the track, and when
enough are laid a rail is putdown on each side in
a proper . position, and- spiked down.
The track-layer thenadvances, and keeps
on its work. until , the load <of ties and rails
is ..exhausted, . when other ■ car loads are
brought. The machine is driven ahead by a
locomotive, and the work is done so rapidly that'
sixty men are required to wait on it, but they do:
more work than twico os manv conld dobyithe
old system, and tbo work is aone quite as well.
The chief contractor of the road gives it as his
opinion that whom the machiairiß lmproved-by
making ti few changes in the method of handling
rails and ties, the- necessity of. which changes is
pow apparent, it will be able to put down five or
six miles per day unquestionably, j This wiU ren
der It possible to lay down track twelvo times as
fast as the usual rate by hand, and it will do the
work at less expense. •.
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—Janauschek is coming back.
Macon, Ga., a $35,000 residence has been «' !■
purchased for IP. E, Bishop Beckwith. v
—Lamartine Is too ill to work and says he Is
too poor to pay the doctor. -
—Mile. Nilsson makes her rtnlrhc at the Acade- ■'W
mle Imperiale, Paris, early In August.
—A Boston rat built himself a costly nest re* ’ ’
cently, using $2,600 worth of bills. ■
—Lord Brougham left only $lO,OOO personal
properly. , .
—Cambridge, England, has made Lieut. Maury
an Life B, : ,
abroad/* daughters accompany Longfellow
curiMitiee! Al *® d secarcd O’Farrell’fl pistols as
. Mirin., la about to listen to a six
hundred dollar representation of the “Messiah.”
a w. 8 ‘ m flddlo ' stlcfc ffl ® mon4 «#
* ,-',‘ Tho Natal d ®J” was too hot for fervent pa
tnollem, v > ~
—When Is the Bdeusun reporter like a horse? -V
Why, when he is takin’-oats, of coarse. , "I
—Tho last rows of summer. The final roeat ,* v
tas of the season on the Schuylkill.
onßaturday 616 more mlUera 011111 miUertary out ' ”
—There is one great criminal whom Johnson
cannot pardon. Himself. ■
—“Old Man” Vans and Wm. Blerley, Esoa., ; S
Sown Chestnut arm In arm on Friday! &
They didn’t stop to cheer the Bulletin office • §
—“ L’Abime,” at the Vaudeville, Paris, is reck- '*l
oned to be one of the most successful pieces ever ’
produced in that city. ;
—Bayard Taylor, when last at Rome, opened
a studio, employed models, and went through a
regular course of art instruction. . ,
. —New York has got in operation' an “In
formers’ Bureau,” for tho benefit of jealous hus
bands and such.
— iT^ o mysterious and fatal epidemic amoncr
poultry, known as the “chicken cholera, ” is dls
coTered to be caused by the presence of trichin* ■
p the intestines.
%/The Irrepressible statistician of Chicago elves -
tne aggregate number of glasses of beer told in •
that city during the Sangerfest at a little less
than a million and three quarters.
—lt took two men four hours to break into a eft
safe in Bryan, Ohio, when their labor was ro- fcr
warded with thirty cents cash,which had beende* *'>££3
posited for security within, . * ysj|3
—A French gentleman Is irate at being refused
admission to the opera in London while wearing
nankeen pantaloons. Were they breeches or x -V.l
decorum? J ■ g; ■M
-The Bulletin devil suggests that Messrs:
Procter & Co. placed the Goddess Of Justice In 'WWIi
their wjndow on Saturday, because the DomOc-’
racy having left the city, she had nothing to do ttSIM
bnt take a holiday. . , .. tj rM
—An enterprising music seller in this city ft®, Ml
having been written to for.- ‘.’Martini’s Eeole 1 A ; M
DOrgue” replied thathe didn’t know “Martin Wr
Eeols, and wasn’t going to bother himself about
any man a “dorg.’ p ' rat jif
—Cereal crops in Spain and southern : France A? Yfi
wili be two-th&ds below the average, owing to 110 /«]
the long continued drought. The Danish people T?
are signing petitions to the government fora
supply of waterl .1' -
—lt is remarked that Mr. Albert Pike is rapidly J,'-
acqulrlngthe art of condensation In his editorial - ® \
labcrs. He has lately had several articles in tho 1 I
Memphis Appeal that filled only two and a half * 1 S
columns.' . ... g
—Erince Napoleon is said to have remained . '"’l ift I
three- quarters of an hour oa his knees before tho I PS f,
tomb of the late Emperor Maximilian, “which . - $& l.
vas pretty well for a free thinker,” says the cor- MKfl
respondent of the Pall Mall Gazette. ' 't, $ fjjfl
—Two celebrated Parisian dangeuses are hors tig
ae combat at the present moment Mile. Gran
zow has crushed her foot and Mile. Pioretti has ■
tumbled down stairs. They are both recovering
however, and hopo in a fow days to make their ' Cmiifl
re-appearance.. - -fiMtWli
—lceland belles Its name. “For many years ” -^ll®]
says a correspondent writing from that island on ' f " ill!
June 3 d, “wo have notseen so favorable a spring .’ c iai oil
as this. From the beginningof May to this day ■ W
we have had a regular summer heat, the conse- J
quence of which is that the pastures are better 0 yvaj
now in the beginning of June than they have ‘ v, f' -
1 been In the beginning of July for many years.”;, l- r J
—The asphalte pavements in Paris are soft -V -■ ‘r?
and, sticky this month. With a walking stick yon “’ V t 1
can make a deep hole. “One of those little la
dies was walking over the Boulevards, when the
pavements were in this state, in a most raTish- At M
ing costume, with little boots whose heels were
as high as an instep and as pointed as an et>i
gram shonid bo. She literally stuck on the pave- - ‘
ment, which gave way under and held her as in a' ; " S
vice. She tried to put her best foot foremost— ’“* t '
first her left, then her right—but could not move, - - *■ U
and finally, was cut out with a couteau de chaise ’ %-'&
by an enterprising yamin who-was passing by. , £s*>{
—The London Star ascribes to Longfellow are- '£.tl i
markable popularity among the English people. , r
who are much more familiar with the productions J
of tho American poet than with the noblest pas- • ' t r-I
sages of Wordsworth or Southey. “If we come 1 Mi l
to living poets,” the Star says, “we doubt very f «
much whether Tqjinyson, with all his popularity, -it A J
can count as many English readers as Longfellow I T 3
can; and to bring Browning into the comparison I ' , 3
would be idle, for the ordinary English public I f
knows simply nothing of Robert Browning; per- / 'll
haps so great a poet was never since the introauc- I -5 'JI
tion of printing bo little known among , his own • /
countrymen. Poll the whole population of Eng- '\ I ■ -'US
land to-morrow on the question, and it wonld Li, :o iy M
probably-bo found that Longfefiow’6 name; in
mere popularity, leads all the rest.” m
The gigantic saurian discovered not long ■#■
nnce in the west, and committed to the T - &*
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences,
is at this moment the subject of a restoration '
by a naturalist of eminence. Mr. Waterhouse 3K'
Hawkins, who prepared the admirable
models of primeval monsters in the Syden- .
ham Palace grounds, near London, is the" TvlSZei
gentleman intrusted with this task, which i
he has a unique combination of faculties, as
artist and paleontologist, for executing.
Species to which this curious specimehbelongs
has been named Elasmosauri. We-hope to ’
publish in a few days a scientific account ef sfteS
the creature.
Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins is a recognized
authority in this matter of restoration; and is
perhaps almost the only living man of science
who has cultivated the artistic faculty suffi
ciently to succeed in this important method of
popularizing .knowledge. 1 Mr; Hawkins’s
presence in America is partly due to his em
ployment, by the ■ New York Central. Park
Committee, to prepare for that Park a group
of restorations similar to those at Sydenham,
only representing the American instead of
European forms. For the studies essential
.to this task he could get no material else
where than in the Philadelphia Academy of
Sciences. The data collected with matchless
care, intelligence, and at great expense, by
the savahs of onr city, will thus recsive their -
I only! popular exposition In another metro-
Eolis. It appears to us that the least our own
urgomasters couldgracefully do would- ‘be
I; to provide us with a set of replicas of these -
groups', to be installed either in our own fine
Park, to which they would lend a new inter- ?
eat and intelligence, or in the proposed net? ■"
-hall of the Academy.” ’t; —"" 1
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